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Christopher Marlowe: A Biographical and Critical Study

by Frederick S. Boas. 338 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Frederick S. Boas

Publisher:

   Clarendon Press

Place of Publication:

  Oxford  

Publication Year:

  1940
Subjects:   Fiction, Marlowe, Christopher,--1564-1593
Table of contents
CONTENTS
I. CANTERBURY 1
I. The Marlowe Family 1
II. The King's School 6
II. CAMBRIDGE 10
I. Archbishop Parker's Scholar 10
II. The Privy Council's Certificate 21
III. CLASSICAL TRANSLATIONS 29
I. Ovid's Elegies 29
II. Lucan's First Book 42
IV. DIDO, QUEEN OF CARTHAGE 49
V. THE FIRST PART OF TAMBURLAINE THE GREAT 69
VI. THE SECOND PART OF LAMBURLAINE THE GREAT 88
VII. LIFE IN LONDON 101
I. The Bradley Affray and Newgate 101
II. First Charges of Atheism 108
VIII. ROBERT POLEY: PLOT, AND COUNTERPLOT, 1585-8 116
IX. THE JEW OF MALTA 148
Appendix. T. Heywood and 'The Jew of Malta'. 148
X. THE MASSACRE AT PARIS 151
Appendix. The Collier Leaf of The Massacre at Paris 168
XI. EDWARD THE SECOND, KING OF ENGLAND 172
Appendix. I. 'Edward 11' and '2 and 3 Henry VI' 192
II. 'Edward II', 'Arden of Fevesham,' and 'Solyman and Perseda' 198
XII. THE TRAGICAL HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS 203
XIII. MARLOWE'S POEMS 220
I. The Shorter Pieces 220
II. Hero and Leander 224
XIV. MARLOWE'S ACCUSERS. 236
I. Greene and Kyd 236
II. Richard Baines's Note 245
XV. THE 'ATHEISM' OF CHOMLEY, RALEIGH, AND MARLOWE 253
XVI. 30 MAY 1593 AT DEPTFORD STRAND 265
XVII. THE SURVIVORS 284
XVIII. MARLOWE THROUGH THE CENTURIES 294
I. From the Jacobean Age till To-day 294
II. An Attempt at a Summing-up
LIST OF PRINCIPAL DOCUMENTS AND EARLY EDITIONS 315
INDEX 329
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Christopher Marlowe and Richard Baines: Journeys through the Elizabethan Underground
Book by Roy Kendall; Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2003
Subjects: Baines, Richard--Ca. 1556-1594 Or 1610, Dramatists, English--Early Modern, 1500-1700--Biography, Marlowe, Christopher--1564-1593, Marlowe, Christopher--1564-1593--Friends And Associates, Marlowe, Christopher--1564-1593--Religion
...0-8386-3974-7 (alk. paper) 1. Marlowe, Christopher, 1564 1593. 2. Baines, Richard, ca. 1556 1594 or 1610. 3. Marlowe, Christopher, 1564 1593 Religion. 4. Marlowe, Christopher, 1564 1593 Friends and associates. 5. Dramatists...
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Christopher Marlowe and the Renaissance of Tragedy
Book by Douglas Cole; Praeger, 1995
Subjects: Marlowe, Christopher--1564-1593--Criticism And Interpretation, Marlowe, Christopher--1564-1593--Stage History--England, Theater--England--History--16th Century, Tragedy
...that Marlowe and Walsingham were on close terms in 1593, when the Privy Council sought Marlowe out at Walsinghams Scadbury estate. It is conceivable...Walcheren, to Lord Burghley, reporting that the scholar Christopher Marly was being sent back to England as a prisoner...warning would be. By the end of the following May, Christopher Marlowe would meet a sudden and violent death. Thomas Kyd was arrested on May 12, 1593. Six days later, the Privy Council issued an order...
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The Irony of Identity: Self and Imagination in the Drama of Christopher Marlowe
Book by Ian McAdam; University of Delaware Press, 1999
Subjects: Drama--Psychological Aspects, Identity (Psychology) In Literature, Imagination, Irony In Literature, Marlowe, Christopher--1564-1593--Knowledge--Psychology, Psychoanalysis And Literature--England, Self In Literature
...index. ISBN 0-87413-665-2 (alk. paper) 1. Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593-Knowledge-Psychology 2. Identity (Psychology) in literature...remains a valuable, if now qualified, contribution to Marlowe studies. Yet another piece of historical evidence deserves...atheistic material found among Kyd's papers in May 1593 consisted of a copy of part of an anonymous treatise...
4.
Christopher Marlowe: A Biographical and Critical Study
Book by Frederick S. Boas; Clarendon Press, 1940
Subjects: Fiction, Marlowe, Christopher--1564-1593
...4 "Marlowe and his Father", in T.L.S. , 2Jan. 1937. John Marlyn, shoemaker, was admitted as a freeman in 1564, on payment of 4s. 1d. While still an apprentice he married on 22 May 1561, in the church of St. George the Martyr, Catherine Arthur, who seems to have been the daughter of the Reverend Christopher Arthur, rector of St. Peters, Canterbury, 1550-2. According to local tradition he brought his bride to a house...transcripts illustrate some of the various spellings of the family name. May 21, 1562. Mary, the daughter of John Marlowe. Feb.26, 1563/4. Christofer, the son of John Marlow. Dec. 11, 1565. Margarit, the daughter of John Marloe...couple. of the three other daughters. On 15 June 1590 Margaret took to husband John Jordan, a tailor. On 10 June 1593 Ann followed the example of Jane by marrying John Crawford, a shoemaker. On 19 June 1594 the youngest daughter...
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Christopher Marlowe
Book by U. M. Ellis-Fermor; Methuen, 1927
Subjects: Fiction, Marlowe, Christopher--1564-1593
...demin, ou plus riche tombeau? PHILIPPE DESPORTES CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE was born in Canterbury in February, 1564 n. s. , and baptised, as the register of S. George...years between his coming to London and his death in 1593. But with two groups of men, Sir Walter Raleigh and...parish church of St. Nicholas, Deptford, on June 1, 1593. The poem of Hero and Leander was finished by...NOTE I The main authorities for the life of Marlowe are:-- Rev. A. Dyce: An Account of Marlowe...the Works of Kyd 1901 . J. H. Ingram: Christopher Marlowe and his Associates 1904 , a volume chiefly...
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The Massacre at Paris and the Danse Macabre
Journal article by Clayton G. Mackenzie; Papers on Language & Literature, Vol. 43, 2007
Subjects: Elizabethan drama--Criticism and interpretation, Elizabethan drama--Works, Marlowe, Christopher--Criticism and interpretation, Marlowe, Christopher--Works, Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre, France, 1572--Portrayals, The Massacre at Paris (Play)--Authorship, The Massacre at Paris (Play)--Criticism and interpretation
...Trans. Sir Thomas North. Vol. 6. 1579. London: David Nutt, 1896. Poole, Kristen Elizabeth. "Garbled Martyrdom in Christopher Marlowes The Massacre at Paris." Comparative Drama 32.1 (1998): 1-25. Roberts, Penny. "Marlowes Massacre at Paris: A Historical...book was renamed Imagines Mortis for the 1542 edition, and had been greatly expanded by the time Marlowe was born in 1564. Arthur B. Chamberlain, in Hans Holbein The Younger, lists some of the many editions of the Imagines Mortis that...and progressively enlarged) editions followed over the next twenty-four years. At the time of Marlowes death in 1593, quite aside from the numerous official versions of the work, scores of pirated editions were in circulation across...
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B. S. Johnson
Journal article by Philip Tew; The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. 22, 2002
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...barroom brawl leading to the death of "Christopher Marlowe, Poet, February 1564 to May 1593" (153). This device offers a sense...unnoticed in the main. The break in the fiction is taken as an act of critical apoplexy...For Hassam, Johnson writes "diary fiction" that characterizes the author where...
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Postgothic Fiction: Joyce Carol Oates Turns the Screw on Henry James
Journal article by Diane Long Hoeveler; Studies in Short Fiction, Vol. 35, 1998
Subjects: Authors--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Ghosts--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Gothic literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Insanity--Portrayals, depictions, etc., James, Henry--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Oates, Joyce Carol--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Obsessive-compulsive disorder--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Sex--Portrayals, depictions, etc.
Postgothic fiction: Joyce Carol Oates turns the screw on...Oates, "Short Story" 214). "Postgothic" fiction brings us precisely to this point, the...that there is no reality outside the fictional, no truth beyond the constructions, no...
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International Fiction vs. Ethnic Autobiography: Cultural Appropriation in Mark Twain and Edward Rivera
Journal article by Udo Nattermann; International Fiction Review, 2001
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Gaddis. Fiction Jones
Journal article by Tim Feeney; The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. 24, 2004
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Gaddis. Fiction Jones. by Tim Feeney Gaddis. Fiction Jones. 2003. 51 min. CD: $10.00 postpaid (c/o Ed Mish...whose songs are death-metal biographies of famous science-fiction authors and who throw paperbacks at their audiences...
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Beyond Morality
Magazine article by Paul Dean; New Criterion, Vol. 21, December 2002
Subjects: Christopher Marlowe: A Renaissance Life (Book)
...three months, that is, about 10,670 days, and more attention has been paid to the last day of it, Wednesday, May 30, 1593, than to any other. On that day Marlowe, who had been summoned before the Privy Council ten days earlier for reasons that remain obscure, was stabbed in a...a political assassination, a case made most elaborately by Charles Nicholl. Nicholls The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe (1992) argued that Marlowe was killed on the orders of the Earl of Essex, with whom Skeres was linked, because...take the heat out of everything. The story of Marlowes life, unlike that of his death, is quickly told. Born in 1564, the same year as Shakespeare, he was the son of a Canterbury shoemaker. After the Kings School, Canterbury, he went...
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The Dangerous Lives of Fiction Writers
Magazine article by Adam Langer; Book, May-June 2003
Subjects: Adventure and adventurers--Interviews, Gordimer, Nadine--Interviews, Novelists--Interviews, Rushdie, Salman--Interviews, Stone, Robert--Interviews
...the father of Quixote was captured by Turks; enslaved five years, with four escape tries before being ransomed. 5 Christopher Marlowe 1564-1593 The playwright and possible government agent was stabbed to death in a shady barroom brawl. 6 Cyrano de Bergerac...
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Fiction and the Future: Gripes, Gibes, and Conjectures: Science Fiction Helps Us Find Our Place in the World of Tomorrow, Suggest the Contributors to Envisioning the Future
Magazine article by Lane Jennings; The Futurist, Vol. 38, March 2004
Subjects: Envisioning the Future: Science Fiction and the Next Millennium (Book)
Fiction and the Future: Gripes, Gibes, and Conjectures: Science Fiction Helps Us Find Our Place in the World of Tomorrow, Suggest...by Lane Jennings Envisioning the Future: Science Fiction and the Next Millennium edited by Marleen S. Barr...
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Fiction Based on Fact: Historical Fiction Newspaper Project Stresses Creativity, Solid Research
Magazine article; Reading Today, Vol. 20, February 2003
Subjects: Historical fiction--Study and teaching, International Reading Association--Achievements and awards, Writing--Study and teaching
Fiction Based on Fact: Historical Fiction Newspaper Project Stresses Creativity, Solid Research. Marianne Rossis "Historical Fiction Newspaper" project makes history come alive for her eighth-grade...
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Distinguishing Fact from Fiction: When Faced with an Overload of Misinformation Being Peddled through the Media and Internet, the Application of Common-Sense Principles Can Help Sort Fact from Fiction
Magazine article by Dennis Behreandt; The New American, Vol. 21, May 2, 2005
Subjects: Conspiracy theories--Evaluation, Current events--Evaluation
Distinguishing Fact from Fiction: When Faced with an Overload of Misinformation...Principles Can Help Sort Fact from Fiction. by Dennis Behreandt With...tell the difference between fact and fiction and truth and falsehood. In doing so...
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Bad Boy Marlowe on a Tear; Shakespeare Rival's Racy Life Put Onstage as 2 of His Plays Are Produced
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, November 9, 2007
Subjects: Marlowe, Christopher
...each other in their plays and shamelessly stole from one another." Marlowe was born two months before Shakespeare, in 1564. His father was a shoemaker but made sure his son was educated, and Marlowe received an exclusive scholarship to Cambridge University. After lollygagging around in graduate school, he began...was dead by the age of 29. Even his death has been shrouded in controversy and mystery. He was stabbed in the eye in 1593 during a scuffle in a tavern, but many believe he was assassinated because of his covert government activities. Had...Methodist Church, 1459 Columbia Road NW. WHEN: Through Dec. 2 PHONE: 202/452-5538 WEB SITE: www.rorschachtheatre.com WHAT: Christopher Marlowes "Tamburlaine" and "Edward II" in repertory WHERE: Shakespeare Theatre Company at the Harman Center for the...
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Arebel Playwright; the Turbulent Life of Christopher Marlowe
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, February 27, 2005
...Turbulent Life of Christopher Marlowe. Byline: Vincent D. Balitas, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES On Feb. 26, 1564, in the cathedral town of Canterbury, Christopher Marlowe was born to John Marlowe, a lowly shoemaker, and his wife Katherine. The world he entered, the one David Riggs bio...that the mouth of so dangerous a member may be stopped", the queen said to "prosecute it to the full." On May 30, 1593, at the Deptford home of Widow Bull, "Marlowe met up with the swindler Ingram Frizer, his accomplice Nicholas Skerres...
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WIN ... the Best New Fiction by Emerging Writers
Newspaper article; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), May 13, 2006
Subjects: Orange Prize for Fiction
WIN ... the Best New Fiction by Emerging Writers. THE Evening...readers the chance to win the best in new fiction shortlisted for the Orange Award for...year as part of the Orange Prize for Fiction, the award celebrates emerging talent...
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THE TRUTH IS IN HERE; CONSUMING PASSIONS Rog Peyton Tells Jo Ind about His All-Consuming Passion for Science Fiction
Newspaper article by Jo Ind; The Birmingham Post (England), March 29, 2000
...about His All-Consuming Passion for Science Fiction. by Jo Ind Science fiction is a term as incomprehensible to many people...press and told them he was selling science fiction, fantasy and horror. The journalist was interested...
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Ronald D. Moore Re-invents Science Fiction in 'Battlestar Galactica'
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, June 26, 2005
Ronald D. Moore Re-invents Science Fiction in Battlestar Galactica. Byline...Saturn Award from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy Horror Films, USA for Best...Battlestar Galactica" is to reinvent science fiction television series. One of his bold moves...
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Marlowe, Christopher
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
MARLOWE, CHRISTOPHER 1564 93, English dramatist and poet, b...English dramatist before Shakespeare, Marlowe, a shoemakers son, was educated at...Come live with me and be my love." In 1593, Marlowe was stabbed in a barroom brawl by...due, as some scholars believe, to Marlowes activities as a government agent...
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Science Fiction
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
SCIENCE FICTION literary genre in which a background...integral part of the story. Although science fiction is a form of fantastic literature, many...invasions from outer space. Science fiction is generally considered to have had its...
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Fiction
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
FICTION see novel ; short story . ____________________ The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Copyright 2007, Columbia University Press. Licensed from Lernout Hauspie Speech Products N.V. All rights reserved.
4.
Shakespeare, William
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...as the "real" Shakespeare, ranging from the implausible, e.g., Queen Elizabeth I, to the somewhat more possible, e.g., Christopher Marlowe ; William Stanley, 6th earl of Derby; and Roger Manners, 5th earl of Rutland. Still others have suggested that the works...
5.
Novel
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...literary usage, a sustained work of prose fiction a volume or more in length. It is distinguished from the short story and the fictional sketch, which are necessarily brief...audience. See also mystery ; science fiction . Forerunners of the Novel The term...
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